WEBVTT - For Security Reasons, I'm A Hobbit 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.280 I'm strong and he. I'm strong and Getty. 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:26.320 So after a political article reports that Trump told his 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.440 inner circle and members of his cabinet that Musk will 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.720 be stepping back, saying quote, the President is pleased with 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.560 Elon Musk, but the decision comes as the tech mogul 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.680 increasingly looks like a political liability. Well, the White House 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.440 wasted no time in responding, the Press secretary posting this quote. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:45.480 This scoop is garbage. 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.279 Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.280 Elon will depart from public service as a special government 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:55.560 employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete, to 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.600 which must commented this quote. Yeah, fake news. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.760 This is one of the times where the claim of 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:05.880 fake news is completely fake news. 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:06.800 It's fake news. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.520 Do I think the behind the scenes Trump is thinking 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.960 a Elon's a little over His keys are doing me 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:12.600 more harm than good. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:13.320 I can believe that. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.480 But the Elon is being pushed out or fired or whatever, 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.040 as they reported all day long yesterday on MSNBC. 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.200 Now it's one hundred and thirty day deal by law. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.000 He's talked openly about the date that he's leaving, and 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.160 he's still planning on leaving on that day. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:31.480 The end. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:33.480 That's the end of the whole story. Well, and as 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.080 Trump said, he's got big companies to run. This was 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.120 not going to be forever. 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.840 But it was presented as you know, a rift and 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.480 a breakdown and Elon getting his punishment after the Supreme 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:49.000 Court justice in Wisconsin that he boosted lost and blah blahs. 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.480 If you enjoy that kind of soap opera crap, good 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:58.360 for you. Knock yourself out. Since we're talking about Elon, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:02.320 here's AOC being asked if she still has her tesla, Tarson, do. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.640 You still have your tesla? I was just wonder if 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:05.640 you still have your tesla? 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.040 Your security viasons on hot? 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.440 I'm not hot any what for for security reasons? I'm 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:12.680 a hobbit? Is that what she's said? 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.720 Yes, she disguises herself as a denizen of the shire 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.680 when she leaves the Capitol to go home at night. 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.200 I couldn't understand her, but it makes sense that you can't, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.760 especially if you're AOC or like a lightning rod, you 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.760 can't go around telling people what kind. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:28.160 Of car you have. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.400 Yeah, yeah, that's just silly, that's kind of funny question. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:36.440 But uh so, okay, that's fine. Oh exactly. I admit 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:42.280 to a low level of chagrin because in our discussion 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.920 of tariffs in the previous hours of the program, I 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.320 we were missing a giant piece of information. In my defense, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:53.400 as a guy who reads, you know, a huge percentage 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.080 of Wall Street Journal every day and then goes to 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.720 the New York Times and all sorts of other news 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.800 sources to get the various perspectives and figure out what 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.840 our people are using. The key piece of information how 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.839 these quote unquote reciprocal tariffs are being calculated. The Wall 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.160 Street Journal didn't have until it's like half an hour 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:14.079 forty minutes before we brought it up, tipped off by 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.720 listeners that what are being called reciprocal tariffs are a 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:24.040 slightly complicated formula that they figure what teriff freight is 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.440 necessary to balance bilateral trade between the US and each 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.920 of our trading partners, which again is a weird and 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:35.000 artificial goal in my mind. You got some small poor country, 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.120 but every country factoring. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.640 Practically every country's poor compared to US. Yeah, that's true. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.800 Yeah, we're going to buy more from them than we 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.120 sell to them, and that's fine. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.200 But anyway, it's uh. 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.440 The point remains, though, that we need to restructure tariffs 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.920 and trades in a way trade that's more fundamentally fair 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.320 to American workers. Anyway, there are plenty to be said 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:58.960 in the days to come as this all shakes out. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.320 We didn't get one, uh somebody complaining about our boring 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.280 teriff talking how you don't like it, and good for 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.880 you if you have no financial investment in the world 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.440 at all and don't care about this, because this is huge. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.159 This is really huge. I mean, if it goes the 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.720 way the detractors say it's gonna go, this could be 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.520 like change your retirement sort of stuff. Oh yeah, So 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.200 I think it's plenty worth talking about. I am amazed 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.960 that one guy can set this off. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:31.480 One guy. 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.440 Ran Paul tweeted about this and then spoke about it 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.400 last night on the floor of the Senate. He said, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:38.240 I'm about to take the Senate floor to speak out 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.960 against tariffs and stand up for the principle of no 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.560 taxation without representation. You don't want to miss this one. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.599 With just the idea of this is taxation on the 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.240 American people. Tariff's at tax. You're gonna be paying for it. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.360 And one guy decided, I guess, you know, he was elected, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:54.320 so you have representation. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.640 But yeah, four Republicans in the Senate joined the Democrats 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.200 in passing a law that condemned this and said it 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:02.520 should be overturned or something. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.320 I didn't see the specifics, but it was the Randy 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.839 Man and you're and Mitch McConnell. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:14.520 Interestingly Man, and then you're two super moderate senator ladies 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.800 Murkowski and Susan Collins. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.320 I think it was. Anyway, it'll never get through the House, 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:20.080 but it's interesting. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.919 I wanted to get this on because I thought it 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.039 was kind of interesting if I can find it, Oh, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.480 here it is just in terms of the who the 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.960 biggest economies are, and the United States is the biggest 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:32.960 economy in the world. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.640 There for a while it looked like China was going 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:35.240 to pass us. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.480 Then not so much, and now there's a decent chance 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.640 they never do because they've got so many things going 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.760 the wrong way, demographics, business, everything else. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:48.120 But here are your top economies. You know, Sorry, just 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.000 a quick interjection. Thomas Friedman in The New York Times. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.800 I think yesterday had another one of his China is 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:59.000 way better at everything columns, just he sees so in 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.800 love with them and they're innovation and how they're the 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.599 future clearly, and okay, all right, tommy boy. 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.239 And the point has been made before that since China 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:15.120 has an India, if you've got four times the population 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.159 of the United States, your workers can be a quarter 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.520 as productive and you have as a big an economy. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.880 I mean, that's just math of it, the advantage of 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.200 having a giant country. And so I came across this 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.960 in the Economist that India is about to overtake Japan 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.440 on the ranking of biggest economies. But some of these 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.159 on here are kind of surprising. United States number one, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:46.360 China number two, then Japan and Germany not that bigger countries, 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.480 I mean, compared to China and India in the United States, 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.440 but their economies are really amazing, right. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.560 I hate to hear them mentioned in the same sentence 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.160 together last time went poorly, I never forget. 0:06:57.720 --> 0:06:59.720 And then India, which if they ever get their act together, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.359 could you know, be a colossus. But they're they're going 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.960 to move up the list to number four. That's Great Britain. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.160 All this talk about Old Europe, which I've engaged in. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.600 You know, their economies are still big. You got Germany, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.760 the United Kingdom, and France all in the top eight, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:17.680 which is. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.600 Why when the EU is looked at as a whole, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:21.960 they rival the US. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.360 Yeah, then it's Brazil, which doesn't get enough attention. Italy. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.800 Canada is the tenth largest economy in the world with 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.200 their little population forty million people, right, yeah, roughly the 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.480 same as California. Of course, if you break out California, 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.560 we're like the fifth biggest economy in the world, would 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.840 be bigger than most of these places we mentioned. Also, Russia, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.240 for all their problems, is the eleventh biggest economy in 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.480 the world. Wow, freaking Mexico, which is a disaster of 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:52.120 a country. It's just called Mexico. Generally, it's the twelfth 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.800 biggest economy in the world. Yeah, even run by you know, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.040 Narco state. Does that include the cartel's economic output? I 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:02.920 don't have any idea, but you know what that's that's 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.400 a super interesting question. I mean, because the cartels buy 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.960 things and sell things and pay wages that go into 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.200 people's pockets that are in turn you know used to 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.800 buy a car economy eat right, So I wonder how 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.760 that works in economic measurement. I won't break down the 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.360 numbers because I want to bore you to death, because 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.760 reading lists from the Atlas are not, you know, the 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.640 best radio, but the United States and China are so 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.480 much The drop off from one and two to everybody 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.400 else is a lot. But I was surprised that so 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.400 much of old Europe still cranks it out and is 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.760 in the top half dozen or so. And they're you know, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.520 the countries that are quite angry about this new tariff deal? 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:42.560 Yep? 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.920 Why how this shakes out as a great mystery? We'll 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.800 all find out together, I suppose. I just hope it's 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:48.640 not too chaotic. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.559 They won't take our meat or our lobsters. Right in Europe, 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:53.800 our beautiful beef. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.959 Our beef is beautiful. 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:56.199 Right. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.320 I think we should land on Normandy again over this 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.000 right beautiful. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.120 So if you had Charlemagne the god mocking Gavin Newsom 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.120 on your Bengo card, Hey, now you're in luck. Why 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:09.880 don't we play fifteen? Just for chuckles? 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:10.240 Michael? 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.360 Maybe Democratic leaders in Congress, ain't it? What if we 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:19.400 look outside of Washington to The Governor's Gavin Nusso from California. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.400 He's been getting active lately. What's his fight plan? We 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.080 need to change the conversation. And that's why I'm launching 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.040 a new podcasts and this is going to be anything 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:36.400 but the ordinary politician podcasts. I don't believe you. Your 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.640 body doesn't even believe the words. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:45.360 Your same is mocking Gavin's overactive hand motions as he speaks. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:50.400 That's funny, that's you know. Charlemagne the God is a 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.959 New York based radio personality very popular among young ish 0:09:55.360 --> 0:10:00.520 black folks and others. Obviously, but the the fact that 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.720 he and his constituency have that immediate reaction and the 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:10.880 Daily Show audience laughed uproar, abrooriously at it, that says something. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:17.400 Has anybody ever won the presidency who sounded sounded and 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:18.400 looked contrived? 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.280 The people that win tend to seem like they're being themselves. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:28.719 Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton's. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.559 Even Biden, who's full of crap and senile. Yeah he 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.240 ran his old scrant and Joe. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.840 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. The people. 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.240 So it's amazing that so many people try to get 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.320 that job by thinking about what their hand gestures are 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.320 going to be or how to smile correctly. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.240 The people that win aren't doing that. You remember the 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.040 other day we were watching Ron de Santis. He was 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.640 talking about uh what, Oh, Actually it was a great 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.480 stuff about how Florida has already reformed its universities and 0:10:56.520 --> 0:11:00.959 there's nobody being indoctrinated into Marxism and no loyalty oaths 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:05.199 in Florida universities. And you commented, he looks twice as 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.800 confident as he ever did during his presidential run. I 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.800 think he got convinced that he had to be calculated 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.680 and not Look, I'm a policy wonk in an attorney, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.200 but I'm real good at running stuff. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.560 Should have gone there. Oh the next I had meant 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.439 to say this the other day. 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.520 The next president of the United States might be DeSantis 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:30.120 and not Ron. His wife, A Kutie is emerging emerging 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:35.200 as a political juggernaut in Florida. I guess, super capable, charismatic, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.160 smart who knows first lady president. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:41.680 A woman president. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.120 Check the constitution says nothing about the Gonards. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:52.679 Really, really, that's surprising to me. We've got more on 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.280 the waist there day. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:01.680 Robbie, twenty two year old Palestinian from City. Rabbi's family 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.160 says he was killed by Hamas militants torture to death 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.800 for publicly criticizing Hamas. Rubbi's brother, Hassan told CNN his 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.920 brother was abducted from the streets of Gaza City by 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.960 a group of Hamas militants. Six hours later, he was 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:20.040 handed over barely alive. Rubbi's brother says his body was 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.240 delivered with a message, this is the fate of everyone 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.680 who disrespects al Casam brigades and speaks ill of them, 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.720 referring to the armed wing of Hamas. 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.800 There you have the story of a young man who 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:49.480 spoke out against Tamas and was tortured to death in Gaza, 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.400 and then students at Clem University safe and sound in 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.640 New York, chanting about Intafada revolution having chained themselves to 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:58.000 the gate. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.800 Leave them, I say, now you're chained to a gate. 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.120 Good luck. Wait, you've got to cut our chains and 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.480 drag us off and pretend to arrest us. No, I 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.760 don't think I do. Yeah, we decided to just leave 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:16.079 you there. That is so disgusting. Yes it is. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.640 And much as I would love to bash the youngsters 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:25.200 for their stupidity, they were intentionally and systematically indoctrinated into 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.760 a political philosophy by their government school educators. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.240 Boy, that's a very good point. For some reason, I 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.280 was thinking, as you were talking, what if that was 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.800 one of my kids. I don't even know if I 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.120 could talk to them. But then what you said is true. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.280 Go ahead and you send them to college, and they 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:45.880 every class they took told them this. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.400 So what are they supposed to think? Right? 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.080 So I'd have to I guess I'd have to dedicate 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.400 myself to deprogramming them. 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.000 At risk of over making the point twenty eight place Michael. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.000 As his body is carried through the streets, the crowd 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.800 erupts in chance, calling for Hamas to get out, his 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.720 family now demanding justice and retribution. Rubbi was killed a 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.880 week after he and thousands of other Palestinians took to 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:16.040 the streets in Gaza's largest anti Hamas demonstration since the 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:21.200 war began. Rubby had already scuffled with Hamas members a 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:26.120 month earlier, his brother said and feared Hamas would kill him. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.240 They want to take me, they want to kill me, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:29.400 he said in this video. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.320 I don't know what they want from me. A week later, 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.200 he was dead. Yeah. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.240 They drug him up to the house with a leisha 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.160 around his neck, almost dead, and he died shortly thereafter, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:43.280 having been tortured, all his fingers cut off, you know, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.920 all the usual horrible, horrible things. Now, So these idiot, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:53.240 the most privileged people on earth, Columbia college kids who've 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.480 chained themselves to something there and are chanting into fought 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.840 a revolution, what would there be their life logic on it? 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.480 Is it like the black face a white supremacy thing 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:04.520 or yeah? 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.920 Yeah, I would love to ask them so in your 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.680 bizarro so stupidly oversimplified worldview, As I've said before, if 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.160 my dog is spoused that I would kick him. That 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.400 the person with more power is always the evildoer, and 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.960 the person with less power is always the noble, fine person. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.920 How about Hamas and that poor young man who had 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.920 the power there all right, now, lecture me about well, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.920 they would say, no, he is with the Zionists in effect, 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.240 so he's become the oppressor and therefore cutting off all 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.000 of his fingers was proper. And you're paying eighty thousand 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.120 dollars a year for that. It's sickening, it's horrifying. I 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.680 can't believe I am blaming myself. I don't know why, 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.120 but I can't believe we let it get that far. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:52.560 The perversion in our education systems shocking. Man. 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:58.720 You can be as anti Israel as you want, you 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.000 can't justify. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:09.160 Hamas they do, though you're right by any means necessary. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.440 There is only one solution into fad a revolution. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.040 And the problem with this story obviously, and if you've 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:17.880 spent any time on it ever in your life, you 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.360 know this. But I'm still making my way through Thirteen Days. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.720 The Lawrence write book about the Middle East. Piece talks 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:30.960 with Carterbegen and and he does a lot of history 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:35.200 lessons in between the negotiations going way back, and the 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:41.320 back and forth between Palestinians murdering innocent Israelis and then 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.360 Israeli's wiping out Palestinians when Moshi Diane came on the scene, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.760 and I mean, it's it's ugly. And then so each 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.600 side has got such a good story they can point 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.840 to to justify anything, right, and it's a race to 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:56.320 the bottom. 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.360 Well, and honestly, it would be more honest and almost 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.520 more informative if you refer to them as the Muslims 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:06.560 and the Jews because it's not the town they're from 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:10.359 that makes them oppose each other one side in particular. 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:16.359 Right, that's complicated, Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.800 Well, guys, the deadline for TikTok to find a US 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:24.160 owner is almost here, and Amazon just made a last 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.200 minute offer to buy the app. You know you're rich 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.440 when you can make a two hundred billion dollar impulse 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:30.840 back and. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.840 Like a two am. Jeff Bezos is like, and that's 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.400 just you undred million dollar. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.360 Company to the car and let me get this waffle 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.640 maker tip. Right now, Amazon's wondering if they should buy 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.480 a TikTok or just steal it off someone's front. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.840 Porsch. That's pretty funny. That's good stuff. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.840 Yeah, and uh, Bezos is the kind of guy that 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.320 could come in and say, you know what, but I 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:55.399 could make something out of this. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:01.760 Yeah, their algorithms are better, but I know some smart folks. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.280 Let's go ahead and buy it. Yeah, it's not going 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:10.040 to go dark, I don't think anyway. Ah blurr afropool 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.600 of nothing except it's kind of interesting and cool. Our 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.639 own Katie Green can set up This report from Katie 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.399 Nielsen of the NBC affiliate in the Bay Area. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.040 Yeah, this next story is out of my hometown, Castor 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.600 Valley in the Bay Area, and it's about a comic 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:29.359 book shop that's been in town for thirty five years. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.959 And I mean I remember buying cart like baseball cards 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:34.800 and Pokemon cards there as a kid. 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:36.880 And unfortunately, these two. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.320 Jack holes decided to smash the window and rob the 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:43.640 place at the beginning of last month, and justice has 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.360 been served. Michael pet twenty four. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.520 Crush Comics store manager Cole Sanders and owner Josh Hunter 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.359 never thought they'd find themselves as real life comic book vigilantes, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.280 but that's exactly what happened. After the shop was burglarized 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.320 in the early morning hours of March twenty second, Bler 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.280 cleared the wall where the most valuable comic books were displayed. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.560 Josh thought they were gone for good until one of 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.119 his employees spotted a very specific comic book for sale 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.520 on eBay less than twelve hours after the birthary. 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.160 When I saw that on eBay, I was like, I'm 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.520 just going to buy that and see what happens. And 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:19.680 we got the guy's name and address and everything. 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.520 The very next day, the Alameda County Sheriff's Department served 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:24.320 a search warrant at the home of twenty nine year 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.760 old Narula Amuri of Livermore, where they say they found 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.679 tens of thousands of dollars of comic books, collectibles, and 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.520 lego sets, the majority of which were returned to their 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:34.480 respective stores. 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.240 Do we know about anything about that very special comic? 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.480 Was it a very rare merry Worth in which he 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.120 counsels a friend to commit suicide? 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.920 I think it was like a custom cover that he spotted. 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.760 But what had happened is this guy who's been robbing, 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:56.000 who robbed the Crush Comics, has robbed multiple other comic 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.840 stores and toy stores throughout. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.200 The East Bay scumbag, And so. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:05.360 Crush Comics created a text thread with other store owners 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.800 and they were going to all these different eBay sites, 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:12.320 and there was actually an Instagram developed for buying legos 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.879 that had all been stolen. And all of these comic 0:20:14.920 --> 0:20:18.360 book and toy store owners banned together and end up 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.640 getting all the information on this guy, and Alameda County 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:21.560 goes and busts them. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:22.360 It's awesome. 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.440 Yeah, I noticed that it was Alameda's Gang Suppression Unit 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.560 and street crimes unit that was in on the bus. 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:28.919 So they're getting serious about that. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:34.240 And now Alameda County has a prosecutor prosecutes crimes, right right, Yeah, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.520 and gotten rid of the communist Pamela Price. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:37.359 Yeah. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:40.440 And one other note about the robber is he wore 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.800 those old timey nose glasses, the glasses with the fake 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.800 nose on him. And Crush Comics released that they had 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.400 caught him by all taking pictures with the stolen merchandise, 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:51.680 and they all had the nose glasses on. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:53.320 Yat. 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:54.840 They had a great sense of humor about it, but 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:56.880 it was nice to see them get everything back. 0:20:56.960 --> 0:21:00.880 Yeah, that's the problem like them, when people steal rare 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:01.680 art and stuff like. 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:02.560 That, what are you going to do with it? 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:03.480 Right? 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.480 I mean it's you know, every there's only people know 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:10.040 where it came from. You could if if you could 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:12.000 steal the Hope Diamond today, which I. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.920 Saw recently, Where did I see it? Washington? Dan? Right, 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.320 must be there's a Sodian news by the way, but later. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.520 Anyway, you could steal the Hope Diamond today, what are 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:23.920 you going to do with it? It's worthless unless you 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:25.600 can somehow back channel and. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:29.960 Arab she yes, precisely, or a Russian oligarchy. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:31.600 I don't have a way to do that. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.000